No, the Windows installer should handle it all. Just make sure you do the
right thing in the partition manager of the install disk. Windows being
installed on drive letter d won't cause any problems for Windows, however,
there is some poorly written software out there that has problems with it.
I think if you remove the c drive completely it should still boot 2000. You
may have to remove 98 from the boot menu. I'm not entirely sure that this
won't break it though. For it to work, there has to be an exact copy of the
boot loader and mbr on both drives, and I'm not sure how Windows
handles that. There's no harm in trying, I'd love to know what happens
(someone else may already know).

On Friday, January 8, 2016, cubbettee cubbettee <[log in to unmask]>
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> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> OKAY so leaving the 98 in as my C drive, do windows 2000 to D: drive.
> Understood.  Was there not something else, that I needed to configure in
> the install when doing it with that method to prevent any type of
> overwriting?  Also since I create a ghost image file for when the hard
> drive fails, would this become invalid if I ever was to use win 2000 as the
> primary without the windows 98 in the tower since it would be reading to d
> rather than c?
>
> Also, If each hard drive had the operating systems installed on them while
> each was the only one in the machine, is there something I can do with that
> rather than re-doing win 2000?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 21:40:41 -0600
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> Subject: Re: win 98/2000 separate HD
>
> Wow, Win98 goes back some time.  There are so many ways to do what you
> asked.  Probably the simplest is to have 98 installed on your C drive (or
> partition).  Install the new drive (most likely you will need to format
> over your existing Win2000) and then (with your Win98 drive in place)
> install Win2000.  You will be asked where you want to install the new
> software (probably the D drive).  The install process will create a
> multi-boot loader.  When starting the computer, you will be asked which you
> want to use.  This process works with most Microsoft operating systems but
> they have to be installed in the order released (98, 2000, xp, etc).  Good
> luck.
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